Computer Music in Argentina
Computer Music in ArgentinaThis archive is part of El Camino de Silicio, a computer music network to promote computer music in the Americas. For more information contact Robert Willey (bobw@ucsd.edu).
The Laboratório de Investigación y Producción Musical is an advanced music research and production facility within the Recoleta Cultural Center located Buenos Aires. Francisco Kröpfl, LIPM's founder, is an important teacher, composer, and performer, and one of Argentina's most influential people in contemporary music. LIPM was involved in a computer music exchange with Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego for five years.
A double compact disk documenting the first three years of the exchange program
between CRCA , CCRMA, and LIPM includes pieces by Pablo Cetta, Chris
Chafe, Christopher Dobrian, Robert Willey, Diego Losa, Stanislaw Krupowicz, Miguel
Calzón, Fernando López Lezcano, Guillermo Pozzati, David Jaffe, Tim Labor,
Carlos Cerana, Rafael Liñán, Eric Lyon, and Julio Viera.
Back cover.
The CD is available from:
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts University of California, San Diego - 0037 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 USA tel: (619) 534-4383
Tarka Record Company is releasing a series of compact discs devoted to the production of electroacoustic music in Argentina.
Argentine electroacoustic music has developed during more than thirty years and
has won international recognition. The "Perspectives" series intends to
make representative pieces of this field available to a broader audience, and to
make known different techniques and aesthetics of composers who use electroacoustic
technology. "Perspectives 1" is the first collection devoted to the production
of electroacoustic music in Argentina. It includes the following compositions:
Julio Viera: Divertimento II (El Reloj)
Fernando López Lezcano: Búsqueda
Jorge Rapp: Break up
Guillermo Pozzati: El adiós
Gustav Chab: Mirada roja
Miguel Calzón: La vida perdurable
Carlos Cerana: Huellas digitales
The Tarka Record Company may be reached by writing:
Jorge Rapp, President AKR s.r.l. Humahuaca 4025 1192 Buenos Aires Argentina
Daniel Schachter: Tiempo Quebrado
Ricardo Dal Farra: ...Due Giorni Dopo
Martín Alejandro Fumarola: Callejuelas
Alejandro Iglesias-Rossi: Ascención
Ricardo Dal Farra: Ashram
Teodoro Cromberg: Marimbágenes
Martína Alejandro Fumarola: El Periegrinar de la Araña
Released by Pogus Productions
P.O. Box 150022 Van Brunt Station
Brooklyn NY 11215-0022
http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm
email: pogal@ix.netcom.com
Espejos Virtuales (1994/96)
...en remolino...
...perpetuo...
...la distancia...
Raices Lejanas, Tal Vez ... (1997)
Hálito (1991) para flauta y sonidos electrónicos (for flute and tape)
Saúl Martín, flauta
Tiempo Quebrado (Sin Tiempo I) (1993)
Fuga Tras Un Objeto Oculto (1996)
Released by Del Signo (ds-001)
RICARDO DAL FARRA: composer, organizer and teacher of computer music. Director of the "Estudio de Musica Electroacustica", the biggest private studio in Argentina. His computer music has been performed in almost all countries of Europe, America and Oceania and in some African and Asian countries. The cassette with his computer music, called "Musica Electroacustica en Tiempo Real", is the first Argentinian recording of Argentinian computer music. He was visiting composer at the CCRMA in 1986 and 1992, where he produced the works "Karma" and "Memorias", and in the "Centro di Sonologia Computazionale" of Padova University, where he produced the piece "Due Giorni Dopo". As a member of the ICMA, he is its Latin American representitive (you can find his reports of computer music in Latin America in all the latest editions of ARRAY). He is also member of the FArME (the Argentinian Federation of electroacoustic music). He conducts the radio programs "Electromusica" and "Musica y Tecnologia", the only one devoted to computer music in Latin America. He is advisory editor of Journal of New Music Research (formerly Interface) and member of the boards of editors of Leonardo Music Journal.. Two of his works were recorded in an accompanying cassette of Contemporary Music Review in an issue devoted to live electronics, and in the accompanying CD (devoted to Latin American computer music) of issue 4 (year 1994) of Leonardo Music Journal where he also wrote an article about computer music in Latin America. He organizes concerts of computer music periodically.
Composers and institutions are invited to send recordings on CD or DAT tape for future programs. Direct all materials and inquiries to:
Ricardo Dal Farra Radio Nacional de Argentina-Musica y Tecnologia Azcuenaga 2764 (1640) Martinez Buenos Aires ARGENTINA Telephone: (+54-1) 553-3015 Fax: (+54-1) 827-0640 Electronic mail: dalfarra@clacso.edu.ar
Ricardo says: "Please, use only AIR MAIL post ("registered" is
better) - NEVER NEVER use 'air freight' mail."
DANTE GRELA: composer, researcher and Professor of composition and acoustics in both the National Universities of Rosario and of the Littoral (Santa Fe). Rosario is the third largest Argentinian city and Santa Fe the fifth one. His instrumental and electroacoustic music (for tape alone and mixte works) have been performed in several foreign countries. He is a very important composer in Brazil, where he leaded workshops and seminars in all big cities. As a researcher, he is the author of very interesting works about music analysis. He is member of the FArME.
ALEJANDRO IGLESIAS-ROSSI: composer and teacher of composition. He graduated in composition at Boston Conservatory of Music. His works were selected for some ISCM "World Music Days" and was also member of the jury for the 1992 ISCM "World Music Days". He lived many years in Paris but now is living in Buenos Aires. He is the most important Argentinian composer in Poland. The kind of electroacoustic music he composes is unique, combining the traditional technology for computer music with Asian instruments
CARMELO SAITTA: composer and teacher of acoustics, composition and music analysis. He won a prize in one of the Bourges International Competitions with his work "La Maga y el Angel de la Noche", produced at the LIPM. He composes music for the cinema and multimedia productions. He has composed some mixed works for percussion and tape. He lives in Buenos Aires.
JORGE LUIS SAD: composer and teacher of composition and contemporary music. He graduated in composition at the Argentinian Catholic University in Buenos Aires and studied music semiology with Jean Jacques Nattiez and electroacoustics with Marcelles Deschenes in Montreal. He also studied composition privately with Francisco Kröpfl. He produced computer music at the electroacoustic studio of Montreal University and in the studio of the Phonos Foundation in Barcelona, Spain and in the LIPM (his work "La Anfisbena" was selected for the "II Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music" concerts). He is member of the FArME and lives in Buenos Aires.
GABRIEL VALVERDE: composer and teacher of composition and music analysis. He is the academic director of the "Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Musica Contemporanea" (CEAMC) in Buenos Aires, where he is setting up a computer music studio. He was Professor of composition and orchestration at the National University of La Plata (a city near Buenos Aires). His work "Cumulos" won a prize in one of the Bourges International Competitions (in the same edition as Saitta's work). He was visiting composer in the Bourges studios and at the New York University in Buffalo, where he produced a work using MAX. He is member of the FArME.
ROBERTO RUE: researcher and assistant teacher of composition at the National University of Cordoba (Cordoba is the second largest Argentinian city). His research works concern acoustics, from which one of them was published in Interface (now Journal of New Music Research) and his complete theory in a book released last year in the "Semana de la Musica Electroacustica" in Buenos Aires. When John Chowning visited Argentina he was very interested in Rue's theory and praised it.
LUIS MARIA SERRA: composer and teacher of electroacoustics at the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires. Vicepresident of the FArME. He was member of the jury for several Bourges International Competitions.
ENRIQUE BELLOC: composer and teacher at the Conservatory of Buenos Aires. He was commisioned by Ensoniq to produce some timbres for its synthetisers. He produced computer music at the INA. He is member of the FArME.
OSCAR BAZAN: composer and Professor of ear training at the National University of Cordoba. His electroacoustic music, which is mainly "experimental" and with references to musical theatre, has been performed in several countries. His personal style influenced several composers in Latinamerica.
MARTIN ALEJANDRO FUMAROLA: composer and computer consultant at the National University of Cordoba. He studied composition at the National University of Cordoba, where Cesar Franchisena (composition) and Ariel Martinez (electroacoustics) were his professors. He also studied at the National University of the Littoral (Santa Fe) with Mariano Etkin (composition, orchestration and music analysis) and Dante Grela (latinamerican music). He composed most of his computer music at the "Laboratorio de Musica Electroacustica" of the National University of Cordoba and is now working with a NeXT computer at the Faculty of Mathematics of the same university. His computer music has been performed in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador, Cuba, Columbia, Brazil and the Slovak Republic, Canada, and the United States. He is member of the FArME and of the ICMA. He won a prize at the Argentinian "Tribuna Nacional de Compositores 92" Contest with his electroacoustic work "Estatismo". Emails: maralefo@turing.fis.uncor.edu and maralefu@famaf.uncor.edu.
Other important composers are: Daniel Schachter (Buenos Aires), Claudio Lluan and Eduardo Piantino (Rosario). This list includes only Argentinian personalities living in the country.
Mario Marcelo Mary (mmary@terry.ircam.fr) is an Argentinian composer living in Paris. He studied composition in the University of La Plata, electroacustic music with Dal Farra, and computer music at IRCAM, the GRM, and the conservatory of Paris. He won the Russolo prize in 1994.
Martin supplied us with a bio and list of works for Daniel
Schachter (schachter@poboxes.com / danielsc@overnet.com.ar).
LABORATORIO DE MUSICA ELECTROACUSTICA belonging to the Music Department of the National University of Cordoba: information on it is in Fumarola's studio report for the "IISBC&M", the Second Symposium on Computer Music in Brazil.
LABORATORIO DE MUSICA ELECTROACUSTICA belonging to the Music School of the National University of Rosario. PC-based studio with MIDI commercial equipment. Composers working there: Dante Grela, Claudio Lluan and Eduardo Piantino.
ESTUDIO DE FONOLOGIA Y MUSICA ELECTROACUSTICA (EFME) belonging to the High Music Institute of the National University of the Littoral (Santa Fe). PC-based studio with MIDI commercial equipment.
ESTUDIO DE MUSICA ELECTROACUSTICA: the biggest private studio in Argentina. Director:
Ricardo Dal Farra. It is equipped with Macintosh, Amiga and PC computers, MIDI commercial
equipment and non-commercial software. This studio also has practically all software
available for Macintosh including MAX.
SEMANA DE LA MUSICA ELECTROACUSTICA: held each year at La Recoleta Cultural Center organized by the FArME, features works of most Argentinian composers.
ELECTROMUSICA and VIDEOMUSICA: series of concerts organized by Ricardo Dal Farra in Buenos Aires.
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